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27 FEB 1974

MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General
SUBJECT : Howard Hunt

1. At the recent request of the Deputy Director for = = -:.
Management and Services, the Office of Finance has searched... «0:
its records to determine if we could find any payment to _

Mr. Hunt in an amount of approximately $30,000 that required -
no accounting. . , ot oe . ne

2, We have searched the following records:

a. The expense runs for the period July 1964 to.
- June 1973 for the immediate Office of the DCI, rae
the immediate Office of the DD/P, FI Staff, —. .. i
CI Staff, CA Staff and the Office of Security. © a
We have checked various items that were re- . ae
: £lected in these expense records but have
identified nothing relating to Mr. Hunt.

b.. The| Madrid Station, JMWAVE and FR/Washington
. Office acfountings to determine if there were
. funds passed by the Stations to Mr. Hunt during
the year he served under non-official cover in .
Madrid. We could find no payment to Mr. Hunt
either in his true name or his two identified -~
pseudonyms. oo ; CS

c. Mr. Hunt's travel claims for the period
: 1960-1972 and have found nothing in these
travel claims that were not consistent with . or
normal travel expenses, i.e., transportation, = .°
- per diem. . Loo , Bo FE
d. We made a specific analysis of Mr. Hunt's
advance account for the period he was under —- - -
non-official cover (July '65-Sept '66) and have —

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determined that $33,500 was advanced to him
for travel and transportation of household
goods to and from Madrid with one trip to
Paris for he and his family to renew their —
Spanish visas. All of this advance .was fully
accounted for. However, in his accounting, .
one item appeared unusual, It was an . S
expenditure of $1,600 for a sensitive . . ©
operation which was approved for write-off by Mr. © © a
- Desmond Fitzgerald on 1 June 1966 without . - ve
further accounting. : mh

-.- 3, Also, we confirmed that no other Agency advance accounts .~ 6
were established for Mr. Hunt during this period. Co Ts

. 4. At the beginning of his non-official cover tour, it .
was necessary to establish a bank account in his name. The _
_ BUR Division accordingly requested we open an account at the’. .

Chase Manhattan Bank in Mr. Hunt's name to receive all non-_ me,
-.-galary payments. (Mr. Hunt had an account at Riggs National ©  - ees
' Bank to receive his salary and allowance payments). The =. 5 7"
following deposits were made to the account during 1965 and.

1966: ,

Account opened: 13 July 1965

13 July 1965 | $10,000
22 July 1965 5,000
15 September 1965 _ 5,000 -.
6 October 1965 ”'5,000
19 July 1966 55000

| _ $30,000

All of the above have been accounted for by submission .
of travel and transportation accountings. a

5. We feel at this time without specific guidelines that
further searching would be somewhat fruitless. One strange
aspect of the non-official cover assignment in Madrid is that
all the costs were charged to the support allotment of the oe
‘BUR Division which is not normal as non-official cover people - - oi.)
“are usually assigned to a project... It is.unusual'to haye Pe
case officer abroad for one year on an operational assignment ~~ ©
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SUBJECT: -Howard Hunt

6. The Office of Finance has not found operational
expenditures except for the $1,600 mentioned above.
Therefore, it is suggested that: Mr. Karamessines be questioned
_as to a project or projects to which Mr. Hunt's operational
expenditures if incurred . would have been charged. ;

7. Another possible. course of. actjon is to request. the
Director to approve my aSking la cleare contact] at Chase
. Manhattan Bank to provide a transcript of all entries into -
: Mr. Hunt's Chase Manhattan Bank account. | ;

'8. We are currently reviewing records of all cashier's

checks prepared and issued by Monetary to determine if any - ,..

were payable to Mr. Hunt. Hopefully this effort will be. ae
. £inished a by the end of the week.

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“Thomas B. ;:

Director of Finance
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